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Firstly it’s very important no matter the level that your team wins it’s home meetings or at least enough of them to keep the crowds coming back, it doesn’t matter if the get a hiding away from home because very few fans actually travel now so unless you pay for a stream, you only see your team when they are at home. Secondly whilst the idea of a promotion being run by members of another seems odd, I know from reading the history of the sport, there used to be promoters who ran many tracks at the same time so it’s nothing new. The basics of speedway as a promoters is always, put together a team that will win most of its home matches and provide a track that will suit those riders and doesn’t leave your patrons covered in dust. I used to go to Rye House on Sundays afternoons every so often, especially when they were in a different league to Arena, I don’t remember many occasions if any where on nice warm afternoon, I would get covered in dust.

Great racing though, more passes in one match than you would see all season at some tracks.

Yes, it’s a professional sport charging professional prices but acting amateurish. The only reason a meeting should ever be delayed is if there has been a bad accident close by and clearly only a small percentage of the normal/expected crowd has been able to arrive, and even the parade should start on time or be canned so that once racing can start, it’s starts promptly.

Foxes do yourselves a favour and sack Batchelor, he will never do anything for you, hes an embarrasment.

Spot on, this is 2026, if you cant get their on time tough.

Its going to be another long night isnt it

Same guy who excluded Bowes after falling to avoid Kerr at Poole, absolutely hopeless and been so for decades.

F*cking Carrington again!

Rushden out of order there

Sounds like Phil has moved, I went to his old address and the drive was so long it took me more than two minutes to get to the front door so I was timed out.

They won’t be helped, it might be 22 years ago but I still have the words that Ronnie Russell/Arena Essex will be helped if they opted to race back in the top flight in 2004, it never came.

I think as far as other promoters are concerned I suspect their opinion towards the Foxes will be, Do good, but don’t do too good.

Always been against outside interference of track prep, we saw it under sky for years a representative called the shots, not the track curator, certainly it shouldn’t be someone like Phil Morris calling the shots, if they must have someone at least have a proper experienced track man assisting but no one knows a track more than the person who does it week in week out.

Seen a couple of races on YouTube, my initial impression is with a bit of dirt down and well watered this could be an absolutely awesome track, there is a ton of room on the corners which is good only if from a safety point of view.

I recall only too well from Lakeside that any afternoon practice would kill the meeting later on, and no amount of work would be able to get it back from being slick and haggard.

Didn’t know Fraser was that age, assumed he was around 19/20, what age was his father Shane when he first came to these shores?

Pretty decent meeting, Oxford a bit unlucky not to be closer but that’s Carrington for you, been around for years and years and never gets any better.

Who is the ref? How on earth can you exclude Bowes for taking avoiding action, Kerr wasn’t even under power.

yeah that was bad too but not so much down to a lack of prep, just the way the track has been built, im sure you must get passing at Plymouth i just cant recall any from the few meetings i have seen, its just so narrow, i would sooner ride Exeter with its solid steel fence, at least that place had some room to lay the bike down.

Really hope the track tonight’s provides more entertainment than the Oxfords home match vs the Pirates. I don’t care if there is a blue line so long as it’s not dusty and you actually pass by sticking the back wheel in the dirt out wide. Give me a track where when a certain rider misses the gate, you instantly think, this is going to be fun.

Needs someone overseeing the sport, a lot of the tracks thus far have been prepared very poorly with dust flying after just the first race, dust flying around is not healthy for anyone even if the racing is still good. I will say though as much as I dislike the track (2 metres on the straights width and 3/4 on the bends would soon change that) Plymouth at least made an effort to get water into the track and keep it there.

It was three and a half hours because they started late and punished those who got their on time in order to reward those that did not, and didn’t even seem like that big a crowd, it look busy because its such a small stadium, I don’t think they would have filled the grandstand at Peterborough. Im sure the locals enjoyed it but for the neutrals, I hope I speak for a few when I say I would rather watch speedway at a proper track where you can race two or more side by side and not a glorified training track.

Three and a half hours to run 15 heats, and only one pass.

Never been a fan of this toy track, far too narrow, zero passing and tonight probably going to take over 3 hours to run 15 races. As Gordon Ramsey would say “Sh*t at its best”

Sounds shocking, I saw last weeks match and accepted it was down to the forecast but no excuse this week, I’m no track curator but next year will be my 40th of watching speedway and know on dry windy days you have to be on the track at the crack of dawn getting water into it and carrying that throughout the day, it’s not acceptable to have conditions like that every week, will the ref be mentioning it in his report? Will Phil Morris act on it?